UTTARAKHAND RIDE

KEDARNATH & BADRINATH RIDE (THIS TIME NH 58 & 109)
Another memorable ride for me covering 800+ kms in hills out of some 1300 kms. My best ride in terms of adventure, night ride in the hills, the result of ignoring local people's advice, riding in hills in lonely roads in the dark, nearly non-existence of roads, riding in some best stretches in the hills, riding to a unplanned route, riding in 50 kms of jungle stretch all alone, fixing a flat tyre ourselves, ripping snake curves in 3 digit speedo, our (me & ompriya) ride to Uttarakhand with my reliable ’05 Uni….

SOME TEASER PICS....

DELHI-JAIPUR RIDE

DELHI-JAIPUR RIDE

I had some official work at Chaksu, some 50 odd kms from Jaipur towards Kota. And this time I decided to ride rather than a taxi. And I’ll never do such a mistake again. Will never mix riding with work, it’s so heavy to ride with responsibilitiesL.
Anyways on 8th it was decided that I have to go for a site visit to a village (forgot its name) near Chaksu for a site visit. And I immediately planned to ride coz I was planning to ride down to Agra on 9th as it was a holiday for Dushera. And diverted/converted the ride to Jaipur.

We (me and Om) started from Delhi at 5.00 AM. It was the earliest we ever started from Delhi. And it was so pleasant to ride with the waves of cool breeze. And we were running 1 hour before schedule. The first stop in mind was Neemrana, at our friend Bishnu’s place. And the road was very familiar to me as I’ve been there many times. By 6.45 AM we reached Neemrana to take our first stop. The rising sun was the first target of my newly acquired 1000D.

The rising sun…




Took a good breakfast there and again started at around 9.00 AM. The next stop was obvious, Chaksu but needed a fuel break. After Neemrana NH-8 was not butter smooth. We hit Jaipur at 11.15 AM and straight headed towards Tonk Road/Kota. Reached at my site about 12.30 and finished my work by 1.30 PM. Now it was time for pet-pooja :D. So we decided to go to Choki-dhani, an ethinic 5star village resort, an architectural master piece in its class. It is some 30 odd kilometers from Jaipur on Tonk road or NH-12A. It was the destination for lunch and to take a view of it as we read it many times on book. Reached there before 2.00 PM and by that time we were exhausted. The sun was in its peak and we were sweating like anything. And it was a good refreshing/photo break. After lunch took a visit thru the resort. Started from there at 4.30 PM.





When I last visited Jaipur in 2003 I loved the view of the city from Nahargarh Fort. So decided to go there just to click some pics as all the forts have entry till 4.30 PM only. And we decided to take the road that connects the Ajmeri Gate and Nahargarh Fort. It was an awesome ride and the best part of my whole trip. The steep hairpin bends gave me a remembrance of the scary ride to the Mansa Devi Temple at Hardwar. The view of the city was awesome.

The route we followed…











After a short photo-shoot we left and rode down from Nahargarh via Jaigarh fort.



Exhausted Om…






It was little dark already and we headed for Neemrana as fast as possible.
Left Jaipur at about 6.30 PM and we reached Neemrana at about 10.00 PM. We took an hour long tea break in between as I was feeling very very sleepy. Did our dinner there with our friend and headed for Delhi at about 11.00 PM. And reached Delhi at 12.50AM.


Route – delhi-jaipur-chaksu-jaipur-delhi
Distance – 634 kms
Photos – 56 nos.

MECHANISED

MECHANISED

It was almost 2 weeks I took my camera out of its pouch. The reason was I was planning to get a DSLR, but the progress was only in planning stage...:D and I felt it's just a insult to my current possession...

And this time I started with my all time fav MACRO and with tripod...

LESSONS LEARNT FROM HIMACHAL RIDE...

Keep your eye on it, you will get some tips for long bike rides....

'm just learning to learn...

CAPTURING MOON...

i was trying to capture moon since last few days....
Camera:Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
Exposure:0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture:f/4.3
Focal Length:60 mm
ISO Speed:80
Exposure Bias:0/3 EV
Flash:Flash did not fire

EXPERIMENTING MANUAL FOCUS:
I discovered how to use manual focus in my camera (SX 100) some days before. But dint got good time to explore it better and today I explored it a little and got some good results. But sad, I can focus manually only 1-50 centimeters…..still something is better than nothing… ;)

One of today’s shot...

YAMAHA RX135(5speed) PHOTOSHOOT
Today morning did a photoshoot for my friend Chintu's RX135.

Trying my hands in HDR...

Hey friends, I was trying my hands for HDRIs. It stands for High Density Resolution images. Though it actually need a DSLR which creates RAW images, which gives the better quality and effect. But I tried it for the photos taken with prosumer cameras means JPEG files. The result was not out standing but was not bad also for me. Actually photomatrix did it all…:D

Sharing the results with you…

This pic is from my recent trip to Himachal and it was shot at Shimla. This is the best result I got from the 15-17 HDRs I converted last night…
The original picture…

The HDR image…


This one is also from Himachal trip and was shot at Narkanda…
The original picture…

The HDR image…


And these are my scale model collections… these are a DODGE VIPER & a BMW M5.
The original picture…

The HDR image…


This beautiful sky was captured someday while returning from office at a traffic signal. Actually this place gifts me a fabulous sunset everyday (read most of the days).
The original picture...

The HDR image...


And this is from second Bhubaneswar xBhp G2G (get-together) in May ’08. The beautiful place is known as Jhumuka Dam.
The original picture...

The HDR image...


This is also from second Bhubaneswar xBhp G2G on the return way.

The original image...

The HDR image...


P.S. image size is reduced to make the page lighter.

the pure form of nature at Narkanda...

Hi

Ah, it is one of the toughest period of life... actually for the carrier ;)
Hope to see you soon on the other side of river.